News archive for 14th November 2018

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How a school music programme in Wales is benefiting the wider community - Independent Using Ofsted’s IDSR: early years foundation stage profile to key stage 4 - Ofsted Improving the home learning environment - DfE National funding formula tables for schools and high needs: 2019 to 2020 - DfE Criminal exploitation and ‘county lines’: learn from past mistakes, report finds - Ofsted Amanda Spielman at the National Children and Adult Services (NCAS) Conference - Ofsted 16 to 19 education: funding allocations - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA Update: 14 November 2018 - Education & Skills Funding Agency ESFA: update - Education & Skills Funding Agency The government sets out plans to support underperforming schools - NAHT UCU welcomes universities' acceptance of expert pensions report's findings - UCU What are NAHT's recommendations for improving accountability? - NAHT How can cognitive load theory be applied to the teaching of history? - BERA Aretaic pedagogy: How we can transform the aesthetics of good teaching? - BERA Through adversity comes strength: Educational policy reform and developing research capacity in Wales - BERA Are LGBT pupils at a disadvantage? - Ambition School Leadership Schoolgirls could soon be given free tampons in schools in bid to end period poverty - The Sun Scotland: Headteachers back action to support ethnic minority teachers - Herald Scotland Private school pupils are being recruited by county lines drug gangs, official report warns - Telegraph Is pupil enjoyment or ‘happiness’ key to effective learning? - Schools Week A backwards step for EAL - SecEd DfE urged to launch independent review into Careers and Enterprise Company - Schools Week AET to give up two more schools after minister demands change - Schools Week University takeover of struggling college delayed, again - FE Week Child criminal exploitation 'still not properly understood', Ofsted warns - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Nurseries '£437m out of pocket' as a result of Budget - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Off-rolling adding to pressure on local children’s services - SecEd University of Derby signs up to Advance HE's Student Success Framework - Advance HE Poorer pupils missing out on music opportunities - SecEd Cut-backs and recruitment problems hit deaf education - SecEd Students witness disrespect and bullying among adults - SecEd Orchestras for All - SecEd Social media guide - SecEd Schools told to cut down data collection burden for teachers - SecEd Collaborative leadership development programme proving a success in Wales - SecEd BookTrust launches Under My Sky poetry competition - Primary Times Theresa May's figures in today's PMQs don't add up - sector response to the PM - AoC | Association of Colleges How to pitch a new idea - Teacher Toolkit Students really do get bored at university – but why? - Advance HE University of Birmingham to be live case study for Advance HE Teaching and Learning Leadership Programme - Advance HE Taskforce warns of risk to children from 'county lines' gangs - Guardian Clarivate wins contract to provide citation data for REF 2021 - Times Higher Education | THE English review ‘focusing’ on technical alternative to degrees - Times Higher Education | THE Action vowed to increase minority ethnic teachers in Scottish schools - Scotsman Birmingham University warned of risk to LGBT rights at Dubai campus - Guardian Private school pupils being groomed by ‘county lines’ drug gangs, report warns - Independent What is the International Baccalaureate and how can it work in my school? - Schools Week Action vowed to increase minority ethnic teachers in Scottish schools - Mail More primary schools could scrap homework – a former classroom teacher’s view - The Conversation Children said these four things would make them happier and we used to take them for granted - Wales Online All the problems with AS and A levels in Wales - Wales Online Fake news: Can teenagers spot it? - BBC 'Offensive' student T-shirts are 'hate speech' - BBC Let's accept it: the government doesn’t care about schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Many school and nursery staff ‘do not feel safe’ in Scotland - Times Educational Supplement | TES May challenged on 16 to 18 funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES School system 'too narrowly focused on the academic' - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Why we need to rethink our education system' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish students could lose bursaries for missing classes - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why we need a curriculum based on what is ‘useful’ - Times Educational Supplement | TES Primary career education should broaden children's horizons - Times Educational Supplement | TES #MeToo? Why female pupils still won't report sexual abuse - Times Educational Supplement | TES Biggest academy trust AET to lose two more schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Thousands of schools to miss out on improvement funding - Times Educational Supplement | TES Row over rising numbers at church school services - Times Educational Supplement | TES Times tables check: what do I need to know? - Times Educational Supplement | TES We must not deprive our children of school libraries - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'Adult learning is addictive, but easy to avoid' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Saatchi brothers hired for apprenticeships PR push - Times Educational Supplement | TES Effective learning 'can make pupils unhappy' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Greene King's Anand appointed WorldSkills UK chair - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scottish schools: 150 safety incidents recorded - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scots to raise criminal-responsibility age from 8 - Times Educational Supplement | TES Drug gangs targeting private school pupils, warns Ofsted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Black and ethnic minority teachers are being ground down - Herald Scotland FE loan-funded provider with copy and paste assignments slammed by Ofsted - FE Week Poorer parents will receive texts reminding them to teach children new words - Mirror DfE finally confirms thousands of apprentices are going unregulated – but is now trying to find a solution - FE Week Projects to support disadvantaged children’s early learning win funding of £18m - Nursery World Scotland: Third of Edinburgh nursery nurses ‘feel unsafe’ at work, violence survey finds - Scotsman Private school pupils at risk of ‘county lines’ exploitation, warn agencies - Schools Week Making lessons fun does not help children to learn, new report finds - Telegraph Mum of schoolgirl who attempted suicide before her 10th birthday shares heartbreaking photos - Mirror The achievement-wellbeing trade-off in education - FE News Texts to prompt poorer parents to teach children words - Times Educational Supplement | TES Scotland: Race falling through the cracks in schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Multi-million investment to support children's early communication skills - DfE Scotland: Call for compulsory school building reports after 143 incidents in 24 months - Scotsman Scotland: Fun with robots set to build compassion for animals - Scotsman Policy in numbers – what counts without counting? - Wonkhe UK sector vacancies outweigh student enrolments - Cambridge Network The achievement–wellbeing trade-off in education (pdf) - CfEE | Centre for Education Economics Racism in Scottish schools hampering ethnic minority teachers - Herald Scotland Scotland: Call for action over school safety fears - Herald Scotland DfE funds Scouts to launch early years provision - CYPN | Children & Young People Now MPs demand early intervention drive and children's centres action - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Do training providers need an A-team? - FE News Help for trauma in childhood 'fragmented' - BBC School delay call for summer-born pupils in Wales - BBC Ofsted chief fires warning on drug gangs which are recruiting children as young as 12 years old - Mail Are students overpaying for tuition fees? - BBC Careers education turning a corner, new research finds - FE News Scotland: Protect children by properly maintaining school buildings, Tories urge - Mail Scouts to recruit children aged four and five in trial scheme - Guardian Budget failings to cost nursery sector nearly half a billion pounds - Nursery World Call for national early intervention strategy - Nursery World Breaking the sequence: how UK tech can change the diversity stats - Financial Times Sheffield University student business scheme fails . . . for being too successful - Times Scouts drafted in to improve poorer children’s speech - Times More bedtime stories and no phones at the dinner table | Damian Hinds - Times Scotland: Polmont youth jail slated as suicide school - Times Scotland: Pupils in danger once a week from unstable crumbling classrooms - Times Scotland: Remove Mackintosh building from Glasgow School of Art board’s control - Times Ireland: Parents say no to drug injecting centre - Times University 'not for people like us' - BBC